Sometimes it is all about timing. Reports out of the North Carolina State Lottery Commission, which oversaw the rollout of online sports betting in the state, indicate a great desire for the activity. How much? Within hours of launching in March, eight figures in revenues (and payouts) had been won by North Carolinians. ACC Tournaments… Read more »
After taking the week off last week, it was time to get back on the horse. One of the things that occurs during a long NFL season is that you begin to get a bit burned out. You’re not making the right decisions (as witnessed by the 2-4 record for Week 11 and Week 12)… Read more »
With Thanksgiving weekend behind us, the NFL Week Twelve schedule is a bit of an abbreviated one. That doesn’t leave many betting choices for the punters to make, something you always desire when looking at a slate of games. Injuries have also begun to take their toll and influence the betting lines. Quick…with Bengals QB… Read more »
There is an old joke among comedians. FIRST COMEDIAN: “What’s the most important thing in comedy?” SECOND COMEDIAN: “Wh—” FIRST COMEDIAN: “TIMING!” The same thing is true with many things in life, but perhaps none more important than sports betting. Picking up key bits of information – an injury, a coaching change, something that can… Read more »
The games are beginning to garner more importance in the National Football League as we have passed the Week Ten mark. Every game now seems to have some sort of impact on the pursuit of the playoff race and, especially with the weather becoming cooler in the North, defenses are beginning to flex their muscles.… Read more »
We’re by the halfway pole with this Sunday’s 2023 NFL Week Ten schedule and, as such, we’ve got enough information to be able to make some designations. Who are the real contenders, the ones that we could easily see in the Super Bowl come 2024? Who are those that don’t quite reach that level? And… Read more »
We’ve reached the halfway point of the 2023 NFL season, and it has certainly been an entertaining one. Of course, we have some of the usual suspects that have risen to the top – Kansas City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco most notably – but there have been some surprises, also. Who would have conceived that… Read more »
If you have spent any time betting on sports, you have come to realize that it isn’t easy. You’re constantly trying to find the edge, that bit of information, that allows you to make a move that other bettors don’t. There’s a reason that it is called “grinding,” because you are literally trying to move… Read more »
When it comes to pretty much anything in life, the more information that you have, the better decisions you will make. This is especially true when it comes to sports betting and, in particular, the National Football League. One of those informational factors is injuries. Especially when dealing with concussions, which can take some time… Read more »
It is something that usually happens at least once in any sports season. There is that day when, as Dr. Peter Venkman put it in Ghostbusters regarding the pending arrival of Gozer the Gozerian, “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together…Mass hysteria!” That was Week Seven in a nutshell for the National Football League in… Read more »
There are times, especially in the world of gambling, when you really wonder if you know what you’re doing. You move all in with your middle pair of sevens against an A-J off suit…and the opponent rivers a Broadway straight. In poker, and in gambling too, you can often make the correct move, the ones… Read more »
When it comes to sports betting, part of the trick is knowing when to break away from the pack – or the favorites – and pick up on the underdogs – otherwise known as the contrarian bet. Picking out these times to take the contrarian play is key to being able to maximize a play.… Read more »
It is one of the keys to any athletic endeavor…momentum. When you get on a roll, you do your best to stay on that roll. In the National Football League, that can be seen in teams who get off to a great start and try to carry that momentum deeper into the season. Such momentum… Read more »
One thing that you’ll notice about the National Football League is that point spreads normally do not get REALLY large. Usually, when you look at any line, it is going to be under a touchdown, if not under a field goal. The reason for this is that there is rarely a difference of more than… Read more »
After the debacle that was the third week of the season, we were able to turn things around a bit in the NFL Week Four results. But that is the way it works in any long-term activity, especially when it comes to sports betting. You’re not going to get everything you want, but sometimes you… Read more »
After the debacle last week that was the National Football League Week Three schedule, there’s one thing that all bettors must be reminded of. All these professional leagues, whether it is the NFL, the NBA, the Premier League, or even the Canadian Football League, would love it if their teams all finished with the same… Read more »
There are plenty of things you can say about Week Three for the 2023 National Football League season, and none of it would be good. It was an issue of up was down, left was right, cats and dogs living in sin…to say it was tumultuous would be a huge understatement. Just look at some… Read more »
We may be only two weeks into the 2023 National Football League season, but there are a couple of things that are already evident. If you can pick out these “sure things” early in the season, then you can use that to ride some betting action when it comes to future games. Who is riding… Read more »
In the world of sports betting, sometimes your greatest friend can be something that both bettors and books hate – the push. This is something we saw in the NFL Week Two picks, where the line set by the book – say -3 or -7 as to the spread or the rare case when the… Read more »
In sports betting, one of the biggest mistakes that can be made is that of overreaction. Especially early in a season, what you see isn’t necessarily the type of team that you’re going to get for the entire season. Thus, you must make sure that you don’t have a “knee-jerk” reaction to things that you… Read more »
If you caught our first-ever National Football League predictions for Week One last Sunday, you learned a fact really quick about sports betting – breaking even isn’t nice to do. To be able to make a profit out of sports betting, you MUST be able to win, preferably around a 60/40 clip, if not better.… Read more »
We are on the doorstep of the official start of the National Football League season. Technically, it’s already started with the stunning win by the Detroit Lions on Thursday night over the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, but that leads directly to something you must figure out when wagering on pro football. A… Read more »
Since the U. S. Supreme Court struck down the laws on sports betting in the States of America, it seems as if EVERY state has opened the gates to the industry. There are several reasons behind it but suffice it to say that these state legislatures have seen that there is an easy revenue stream… Read more »
With the influx of sports betting across the States of America, it was perhaps inevitable that there would be a crackdown on both professional and collegiate athletics regarding players, coaches, and management taking part in the activity. Earlier this week, the National Football League (NFL) suspended three more players indefinitely for violations of The Shield’s… Read more »
It should be a rule that is ingrained in the minds of players, but it seems that there needs to be reminders handed out occasionally. On Friday, the National Football League did just that and brought the hammer down hard. Five current players in the NFL for three different teams were suspended, with three receiving… Read more »
